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One phrase I refuse to use anymore, Dr. Anthony, is anti-aging? Like, I am not here for the

anti-aging conversation. It drives me insane because

we're literally all aging all the time every day. If we have the privilege of being here,

okay. To me, longevity is about living as powerfully and vitally as you can for as long as you can.

And it's so much more for me, personally, about health span than lifespan.

Tell me your point of view. Well, I totally agree with you. I think the way to live a long life

is actually to align your habits and your actions with natural law. Everything in nature, you know,

has, there's a law in a cycle. There's the sun and the moon. It governs these kinds of things.

And so when it comes to the body, we need to have good food inputs. We need to have good circadian rhythm. We need to move our

bodies. We need proper hydration. We need to understand also the trajectory that the body naturally

goes through, particularly in the fourth and fifth decades of life with hormonal changes and how to

kind of ride that wave. And when people deviate from this, they're eating the processed foods, as you know, they're not sleeping enough, they're stress, too much caffeine, not enough movement.

This is where, you know, health span and lifespan and like the downward decline start to kind

of diverge, if you will. And we can fix this with some simple lifestyle stuff.

What do you consider the key aspects of health that people over 40, let's say, must absolutely non-negotiables must prioritize for longevity?

Believe it or not, one of the main longevity hormones that not enough people are talking about is melatonin.

Melatonin is like one of the main governors of how good your immune system in as you age, how healthy your skin is, your brain health,

how your brain actually cleans itself as night. All of this is governed by melatonin. And it's

fascinating because we've only had like a couple hundred years with artificial light,

let alone the cell phones that we now have blasting all of us. And it's actually one of the

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